Wichita, KS MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

106,686	71,760	1,832	72,302	7,833	284,807
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	34	63,724	131.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	71	37,420	77.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	39	33,885	69.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	12,487	25.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	29	10,922	22.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	10,913	22.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	26	10,390	21.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	28	9,214	19.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	15	8,631	17.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	8,530	17.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	24	6,142	12.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	19	5,153	10.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	29	4,941	10.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,797	9.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,786	9.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	3,923	8.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,501	7.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	9	3,325	6.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	1,917	4.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,835	3.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,773	3.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,767	3.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,714	3.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	1,638	3.4
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,079	2.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,000	2.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	858	1.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	794	1.6
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	3	648	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	639	1.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	524	1.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	521	1.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	510	1.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	463	1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	257	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	211	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	193	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	0.3
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	155	0.3
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	124	0.3
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.3
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	70	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	514	262,301

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 485,270. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (262,301) include 54.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.